HB156 Alabama 2014 Session

This bill would require the State Department of Education to develop, and each local board of education to adopt, an anaphylaxis preparedness program

This bill would provide for implementation of the program by each local board of education commencing with the 2015-2016 scholastic year

This bill would authorize the lead nurse employed by the local board of education to collaborate with a local physician to develop and maintain a protocol for emergency response that includes a supply of premeasured, autoinjectable epinephrine on each public school campus

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment

Relating to public K-12 education; to require the State Department of Education to develop, and each local board of education to adopt and implement, an anaphylaxis preparedness program commencing with the 2015-2016 scholastic year; to authorize the lead nurse employed by the local board of education to collaborate with a local physician to develop and maintain a protocol for emergency response that includes a supply of premeasured, autoinjectable epinephrine on each public school campus; and in connection therewith to have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.